Signul

@thomasmeagher The vision is pretty straight forward. Digital life has become increasingly complex, but there are definitely parts that be automated based on location, time of day, moving toward, or away from an object, etc. That's where Signul comes in. If you always launch your music player when you leave the house, or get in the car, we can help. If you always text your spouse to say you're headed home for the day, we can do that too. Signul simplifies your daily digital life. That's really what it's all about.

@DylanLaCom Not at present - the Signul beacons transmit some extra metadata that allows the Apps to discover them and provide a seamless zero-config experience. We may open it up in the future, but manual configuration is significant friction.

@big_dad_t very cool. Thanks!

@Anderson760 This is a good question Joe. A few people have asked us about it. We favour the simplicity and accuracy of the physical device. Using GPS, WiFi, Cell Triangulation will net you accuracy within 10-30 feet outdoors, but is not quite reliable enough to know the difference between you being upstairs or downstairs at home, or which room you're in at work. With a beacon, you can dial the power level up and down until you find a good detection radius. It makes the process simpler and more certain. Now - as for the more "full context" approach you describe.... there's 100% a place for that too and I can see us evolving to add reliable versions of those features into Signul over time. There's definitely a lot of amazing and useful things you can do with a more comprehensive notion of context.

@big_dad_t Thanks that makes a lot of sense. That level of granularity can be difficult in the home

@zachdunn The background response time is a factor, although iOS is pretty generous in terms of background execution for iBeacon. We've had to do a significant amount of work to manage background ranging properly.